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Getting Your Child to Say "Yes" to School: A Guide for Parents of Youth with School Refusal Behavior
Many parents find getting their child to school in the morning to be quite a challenge. If your child consistently pleads with you to let him stay home from school, if he skips school, if his morning routine is fraught with misbehaviors, or if he exhibits signs of distress and anxiety related
to attending school, this book can help.
Getting Children to Say Yes to School: A Guide for Parents is designed to help you address your childs school refusal behavior in the early stages. This guide helps you identify school refusal behavior and provides step-by-step instructions to solve the problem. Learn different techniques for
getting your child to school, including enhancing relaxation, changing your child's negative thoughts about school, establishing a clear and predictable morning routine, and setting up a system of rewards for going to school.
Tools such as worksheets, lists of Dos and Don'ts, sample parent/child dialogues, and Fridge Notes combine to create a workbook-type resource that will help you increase your childs school attendance and relieve your own feelings of concern and worry. Easy to read and filled with concrete
strategies, this book is the first of its kind dedicated to educating and arming parents with the tools they need to resolve their child's school refusal behavior.
to attending school, this book can help.
Getting Children to Say Yes to School: A Guide for Parents is designed to help you address your childs school refusal behavior in the early stages. This guide helps you identify school refusal behavior and provides step-by-step instructions to solve the problem. Learn different techniques for
getting your child to school, including enhancing relaxation, changing your child's negative thoughts about school, establishing a clear and predictable morning routine, and setting up a system of rewards for going to school.
Tools such as worksheets, lists of Dos and Don'ts, sample parent/child dialogues, and Fridge Notes combine to create a workbook-type resource that will help you increase your childs school attendance and relieve your own feelings of concern and worry. Easy to read and filled with concrete
strategies, this book is the first of its kind dedicated to educating and arming parents with the tools they need to resolve their child's school refusal behavior.
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208 pages, Paperback
First published November 30, 1899
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May 24, 2016
A literary masterpiece, this is not. In an effort to make the chapters stand alone, the author has included a huge amount of redundant information. And for kids with significant school refusal behavior, Kearney admits the book isn't going to cut it--seek the advice of a mental health professional. I would add, someone with experience in this field.
The advice in a nutshell boils down to this:
1. Teach relaxation techniques
2. Use cognitive behavior modification to combat negative thinking
3. Be firm--the child needs to go to school
4. Meet the child where she is--if she can go just for lunch, start there and add time.
5. Set a morning routine and reward for sticking to it and punish (take away privileges) for failing to do so.
6. For older children, make weekly contracts to encourage desired behavior (like sticking to a morning routine). Adjust as necessary. Negotiation in advance is ok, but not in the moment.
7. Reinforce positive behavior, ignore negative behavior.
There, I saved you some time. The book only mentions in passing involvement of the legal system for habitually truant kids.
Overall, I think if a parent is having enough trouble getting a kit to go to school that he or she picked up this book, the problems are more serious than the book can help with.
The advice in a nutshell boils down to this:
1. Teach relaxation techniques
2. Use cognitive behavior modification to combat negative thinking
3. Be firm--the child needs to go to school
4. Meet the child where she is--if she can go just for lunch, start there and add time.
5. Set a morning routine and reward for sticking to it and punish (take away privileges) for failing to do so.
6. For older children, make weekly contracts to encourage desired behavior (like sticking to a morning routine). Adjust as necessary. Negotiation in advance is ok, but not in the moment.
7. Reinforce positive behavior, ignore negative behavior.
There, I saved you some time. The book only mentions in passing involvement of the legal system for habitually truant kids.
Overall, I think if a parent is having enough trouble getting a kit to go to school that he or she picked up this book, the problems are more serious than the book can help with.
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